Primary five pupils in Perth and Kinross will be entitled to free school meals from January 2022. But the Scottish Government has reneged on its promise to roll out the initiative to all primary pupils by August 2022 much to the disappointment of one local councillor.The August 2022 deadline has been delayed and Scotland’s largest teaching union is now calling for the free school meals initiative to be further extended to secondary pupils.It is understood councils were unhappy the August 2022 deadline was announced before local authorities had a chance to calculate how much it would cost to put in place.A Scottish Government spokesperson said: “We have provided funding to support the expansion of free school lunches to primary four and
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